The Blacksmith's test. by ComsumedDarkness, literature
Literature
The Blacksmith's test.
For seven days and seven nights the knight worked tirelessly, seven days and seven nights the man worked the bellows, fed the living flame and followed his meticulous ritual, a mystical scent filled the air as the Knight fought the flames, and dominated them into submission, working for that constant perfect temperature.
The fire sang and roared, it crackled and hissed, it spat out burning sparks and unkind licks, the fire was hungry, it wanted to devour and consume all, burn it and transform it into energy.
But the Man could not let it have it's way, so he fought, with the arcane ritual, the bellows, the buckets of controlled water.
All f
He waits anxiously in the padded seats of the airport lobby, his eyes fixated on the arrivals door, waiting for that hiss of air and the sudden wall of noise and chatter that'd emerge from it when the plane finally disembarked.
He took a look at his watch, sighing anxiously, a slight tremor shivering through him, her plane wasn't due to land for another five minutes, then it'd take her a good three or four to get down to the floor. He knew the airport like the back of his hand, the procedures and rituals.
How many times was it him flying up there without a care, being hurtled forward unknowingly in the passenger seat to some destination? Ho
He doesn't know what to say. A torrent of words storm beneath the surface of his brain, rhythms drum in his skull.
Poetry frozen, stories untold, tales unsung, words unsaid. A thousand different pieces stir in the recesses of his mind, worlds upon worlds, on universes within universes, all contained in his own personal library. Each yearning to break free and to share their tales with others, share the happiness, the joy, the pain and suffer, the experience of the story.
But he doesn't know what to say. He can't pin down a beginning, his fingers won't move, paralyzed in fear of messing up each fragile entity, hesitant to dispel that fervour